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How to install a Minecraft server on Linux

It'll take a while to see how the acquisition of Mojang will change things in the Minecraft world, but in the meantime, there's still the need to build stuff and avoid Creepers. Spinning up a Minecraft server is pretty straightforward. Once I had Java up and running on the server, it was a painless process to grab the Minecraft jar file, install it and get it up and operational. A quick test to make sure it's up and running and off into the biomes we go...

Put in your server's IP address and the status tool will tell you if it can access it.

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